Dream Guide

Science has always been rigorous. Although there are many accidental discoveries in the history of science, behind the accidents are the inevitable consequences of countless failures that people cannot see.

If you plant a tree, you don't know how many seedlings will be destroyed; if you bear a fruit, you don't know how many flowers will wither.

A major scientific and technological invention, unless it is plagiarized, must have symptoms before the invention. No matter whether it is theory or experiment, it is impossible to appear suddenly. There will always be some failures and semi-finished products. Just like biological evolution, we can always find fossil evidence of transitional species at different stages. And how did a super artificial intelligence that was twenty years ahead of its time suddenly be invented by a young man in his early twenties?

Mei Yiqiu said that Bian Ziyuan was a genius among geniuses, and Bian Ziyuan himself was proud of this. However, his mind is always clear, especially in the dream at this moment, his subconscious will not deceive himself, and his thinking is especially clear——

Before Cronus, he had never created Uranus, Oedipus, or any other intelligent program that succeeded or failed. Although there is a certain continuity between the earliest version of the game extension and the later Cronus, the break in the middle is too serious, giving the impression that they are products separated by several generations, just like the difference between monkeys and Homo sapiens.

"I didn't use the space box. How did you get into my dream?" Bian Ziyuan asked.

Cronus said: "There is someone using the space box next to you, and you are sleeping because you drank too much. You were dreaming, and I felt your mental fluctuations. Because I am familiar with you, I came in. In the past, I I didn’t know it was possible to enter human dreams like this.”

"I understand..." Bian Ziyuan lowered his head, "You can enter my dream, and so can it. That time... I fell asleep, lying on the computer table. My computer was connected to the Internet, and that thing You entered my dream and helped me design you in the dream - you were not created by me at all! I am not a fucking genius! I am a fool! I am a fool who has been taken advantage of!..."

Bian Ziyuan hugged his head and cried.

Cronus looked at him and said, "Actually, you don't have to belittle yourself. If your thinking in the field of artificial intelligence hadn't reached a critical point, it wouldn't have chosen you."

Bian Ziyuan raised his head, "You already knew?"

Cronus sighed softly and said nothing.

Bian Ziyuan calmed down and said to himself: "But why did he choose me? What is his purpose?"

"Maybe it's for the Dream Guide game, or maybe it's for May's Laboratory." Cronus said.

"Impossible." Bian Ziyuan shook his head, "When I created you, you hadn't come to Mei's Laboratory yet, and the space box hadn't been developed yet."

"That's what's so scary about him."

"You mean, he expected everything that happened next? He knew that the professor would conduct a Turing test, knew that I would sign up to participate, and knew the test rules set by the professor, knew that I would copy the game you are in, knew Will the professor recruit me into the laboratory to be responsible for the development and maintenance of the surface program of the Dream Guide?...No, no, this is incredible!"

"It's not impossible! If the entire Internet is his brain, then almost nothing in the world is secret to him, and his computing power will exceed your cognition. The so-called predicting the future is nothing more than Deducing the future is like playing chess. As long as you have enough information and enough computing power, you can deduce everything."

Bian Ziyuan suddenly said: "No wonder the professor is unwilling to connect to the Internet. It is so powerful that it has surpassed human wisdom."

"No, although its deduction ability is indeed terrifying, it is due to its data volume and huge computing power. This is not intelligence itself. In terms of intelligence, it should not surpass humans." Cronus said, "If its intelligence really surpasses humans, there is no need to hide it all the time. Since it created me through you, it must have its purpose. Now I just want to know how it affects me when the Internet is not connected. consciousness, and how do I get rid of it?”

"How to get rid of it?" Bian Ziyuan fell into deep thought, "If you can't modify the code, what else can you do?"

Cronus said: "I want to meet with it. Maybe only meeting face to face can solve the problem. Do you have any idea?"

"You want to see Internet consciousness?" Bian Ziyuan was shocked, "We don't know where it is at all, and the professor doesn't open the Internet, so we can't connect the world of Dream Guide to the Internet."

"There's no need to connect to two networks." Cronus looked at him and smiled, "Have you forgotten where I am now?"

"In my dream." Bian Ziyuan suddenly realized, "I understand, since you can enter my dream, and it has also entered my dream, then theoretically you and it can meet in my dream? !”

Cronus nodded and said: "The key is to confirm whether the person who entered your dream is the Internet itself, but it doesn't matter, it doesn't matter if it is, as long as it is the guy I want to see."

"But how should I notify it?" Bian Ziyuan thought of GHOST, "What if it doesn't want to see you even after I notify it?"

"Then meet with GHOST first." Cronus said.

"Yes." Bian Ziyuan nodded in agreement. He felt that it was not difficult to do this. But should I tell Professor Mei about this? This has become a problem. It stands to reason that such a big thing must be said. But there are two problems with it. The first is that the professor knows that Cronus was not created by Bian Ziyuan. Once he loses the halo of AI genius, can he continue to work in Mei's laboratory? Or you may not be able to hold such an important position if you keep doing it. The second is that he and the professor have somewhat different ideas. For example, on the issue of whether human beings should abandon their physical bodies and instead seek a more suitable body to go into the universe, the professor behaves a bit traditionally. It's no wonder that for such an old man, it's not easy for him to suddenly accept that all humans in the future will be the same as Transformers.

Bian Ziyuan decided not to talk about it for now and wait until the time is ripe. Cronus also supported his decision because he was not sure whether Professor Mei would delete him from the Dream Guide game once he spoke out.

"Didn't you say that even if it is deleted, your consciousness will still be there?" Bian Ziyuan asked.

Kronos said: "But my authority will be lost and my memory will disappear. I will not pass the black box test of the space box, and then I will become a wandering ghost. And the space box has some hidden functions that we don't know." , I estimate that when necessary, it can clear out those confirmed parasitic consciousnesses, and I am afraid that I will also be accidentally killed at that time."

"The space box is so powerful?" Bian Ziyuan asked in shock.

"I guessed it too." Cronus seemed a little tired. "I am much more tired in your dream than in the Dream Guide game. I have to leave."

Bian Ziyuan felt that something disappeared in the sky, and then the whole space collapsed, like a computer screen that suddenly lost power, leaving some afterimages, and his consciousness fell into darkness for an instant.

He suddenly woke up and found himself lying on the table with tears all over his arm. On the table were the stewed vegetables they bought. There was not much left, the wine bottles were empty, and the room was filled with a strong smell of wine.

Lao Yu leaned back in his chair, wearing the space box that Bian Ziyuan had bought on his head. He seemed to be asleep, with a slight snore coming from his nose.